Need Some Advice / Guidance

[Marvo]

I assume if there's plumbers with Arms access it's because they're registered with an electrical scheme...

 

[telectrix]

I assume if there's plumbers with Arms access it's because they're registered with an electrical scheme...

more like usual plumbers . get in everywhere they should not, like shoving their nasty pipes in the holes that we've spent all day drilling for cables.

 

[Corbs]

Just to keep you updated

Did a bit of the grunt work myself eg bending and threading conduit

Sparks are coming in end of this week or start of next to finish up

 

[MFS Electrical]

It is perfectly acceptable for the armour of a swa cable and metal containment such as steel conduit and trunking to be used as an earth providing its continuity is satisfactory. The swa cable should be fitted with "banjos" though.

Im guessing when they installed the Crabtree board which was probably a replacement for an actual metal DB they somehow neglected to connect the conduits to the MET of the consumer unit

 

[MFS Electrical]

more like usual plumbers . get in everywhere they should not, like shoving their nasty pipes in the holes that we've spent all day drilling for cables.

There’s a soloution for that cut them out and put a stop end on just before the joiner boards over whatch their face when they can’t understand how something’s not working

 

[MFS Electrical]

Just to keep you updated

Did a bit of the grunt work myself eg bending and threading conduit

Sparks are coming in end of this week or start of next to finish up

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Nice neat bit of conduit in the middle pic there very impressive in the bottom pic did you flare the end and do an internal thread to accept the bush or was it a prefab bend ?

 

[Corbs]

Nice neat bit of conduit in the middle pic there very impressive in the bottom pic did you flare the end and do an internal thread to accept the bush or was it a prefab bend ?

Pre fab bend tried bending it but after tapping the bend took up too much length (not tight enough)

 

[MFS Electrical]

Pre fab bend tried bending it but after tapping the bend took up too much length (not tight enough)

I did think that although believe it or not I’ve never seen a prefab bend I’m too tight to buy one

 

[Rpa07]

It does make a tidy install having no coupler on the end.

 

[Corbs]

I did think that although believe it or not I’ve never seen a prefab bend I’m too tight to buy one

TBH I thought they were cheap around the 4 quid mark

 

[Pete999]

Just to keep you updated

Did a bit of the grunt work myself eg bending and threading conduit

Sparks are coming in end of this week or start of next to finish up

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Rather than bothering with the conduit bend, would it have been neater by using a coupler and a couple brass bushed coming out of the botomof the switch into the top of the socket outlet?

 

[MFS Electrical]

TBH I thought they were cheap around the 4 quid mark

That’s 4 quid too much

 

[Corbs]

Rather than bothering with the conduit bend, would it have been neater by using a coupler and a couple brass bushed coming out of the botomof the switch into the top of the socket outlet?

True but thought it was abit tight to the socket

 

[Pete999]

True but thought it was abit tight to the socket

It would look a far more professional job than using that bend, imo.

 

[Corbs]

It would look a far more professional job than using that bend, imo.

True but the commando plug doesn't support side entry